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GERMAN SMUGGLERS.

BULLET-PROOF VEHICLES. Smuggling is the new occupation of numbers of tho unemployed in the industrial districts of Germany near the Belgian and Dutch frontiers. A Customs official stated lately that it has been necessary to double the number of persons ordered to watch. " The business is completely organised," he said, " and has its centres in the great industrial towns of tho Ruhr and the lthine. " The chief articles arc coffee and cigarettes. They are brought over the frontier by individuals who take them to a secret depository, which may be a little farmhouse or a sheltered spot in the forest. " From time to time the organisers in the towns send motor-vans to collect the goods, those employed in these expeditions being well armed. In some cases the vehicles are lined with steel plates and are bullet-proof, while the engines as a rule are protected with bags of •and."

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

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GERMAN SMUGGLERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

GERMAN SMUGGLERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20982, 19 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

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